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- Lagrosen, Yvonne, 1966-, et al.
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The relationship between quality management and employee health : exploring the underlying dimensions
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management. - Olney, Bucks , UK : InderScience Publishers. - 1746-6474 .- 1746-6482. ; 5:2, s. 109-123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The first purpose of this study was to verify the relationship between workplace health and quality management, particularly the values ‘leadership commitment’ and ‘participation of everybody’ whose importance previous research has pointed to. The second purpose of the study was to examine the constituents and mechanics of the relationships between health and those values. A case study was carried out in a Swedish manufacturing company using data triangulation in the form of in-depth interviews and focus-group interviews on three levels. The findings show that the perceptions of the quality management values were significantly correlated with the employees’ perception of their health. This finding substantiates earlier studies indicating a relationship between quality and health. Important dimensions of ‘leadership commitment’ and ‘participation of everybody’, regarding health, were identified and described in models. The paper provides additional understanding of the connection between quality management and health, particularly regarding the role of leadership.
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- Tengelin, Ellinor, 1982-, et al.
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Swedish managers' experience-based understanding of the Capacity to work in employees with Common Mental Disorders : a Focus Group Study.
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of occupational rehabilitation. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1053-0487 .- 1573-3688. ; 32:4, s. 685-696
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: Understanding of the capacity to work among employees with common mental disorders (CMDs) is important, but contemporary knowledge on this issue lacks the managers' perspective. The aim of this study was to explore and describe managers' experience-based understanding of capacity to work in employees with CMD.METHODS: A qualitative focus group study was designed. Managers with experience in supporting employees with CMD were recruited via organizations and networks. Eight focus group interviews with 31 participants took place.RESULTS: The analysis resulted in five categories. (1) Capacity to mentally focus on work tasks decreases or disappears, with negative consequences for work output. (2) Capacity to commit to continuous and coherent task changes, making tasks that span longer periods of time difficult. (3) Capacity to independently adapt to the needs of the situation decreases, and employees need more guidance and instructions than usual. (4) Capacity to keep up professional appearances is reduced, and the employees struggle with the professional role. (5) Ability to interact socially and professionally decreases, which potentially causes conflicts at the workplace.CONCLUSIONS: This study adds managers' perspective to the increasing knowledge on how capacity to work is influenced by CMDs. Managers understand CMDs in employees as changed, reducing the capacities needed for occupational functioning. A deeper understanding of reduced capacity to work is needed to adapt workplaces, and our findings can facilitate work accommodations for employees with CMDs.
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- Boström, Lena, 1960-, et al.
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Didactics in school-age educare centres : An unexplored field but with distinctive views
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - : Elsevier. - 2590-2911. ; 6:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The background for this study is the lack of well-defined and distinct theories on didactics in school-age educare centres (SAECs). Therefore, in this study, we investigated and compared perceptions among nine professional groups employed in the field. The participants included 390 females and 102 males in Sweden, and their beliefs about didactics in SAECs were measured through a questionnaire consisting of 24 items on a 4-point Likert scale, which researchers and those related to the didactics in SAECs proposed. Descriptive statistics presented an overall picture of the various claims on a group level. The Mann–Whitney test investigated the distinctions between occupational categories. The results indicated that most of the items were relevant. Furthermore, the pupils' orientation was not taken into account enough. Didactics should be translated into SAEC practices but the transfer into practice remains unclear. Many respondents appeared to agree with all of the items to varying degrees, but least that SAEC didactics should not be related to school activities. An important result was that principals' perceptions diverged largely from those of other groups, especially regarding the relationship of didactics to the school's activities. The results partly explain that different professions the SAECs affect see the role of didactics differently.
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- Boström, Lena, 1960-, et al.
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Didaktik i fritidshem ur svenska rektorers perspektiv : särskiljande föreställningar möter en pedagogisk praktik
- 2023
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Ingår i: Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige. - : Linnaeus University. - 1401-6788 .- 2001-3345. ; 28:4, s. 142-171
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Syftet med den här studien är att bidra med kunskap om svenska rektorers upp-fattningar om didaktikbegreppets innebörd i fritidshemmet. En tidigare studie har visat särskiljande uppfattningar hos rektorer i relation till andra aktörer inom fritidshemmet, varför behovet av en fördjupad studie av rektorers uppfattningar är relevant. Det empiriska materialet består av en webenkät besvarad av 51 rektorer omfattande öppna och slutna svarsalternativ. Det har analyserats med inferentiell och deskriptiv statistik samt innehållsanalys. Studien synliggör upp-fattningar rektorer har om innehållet i begreppet didaktik i fritidshem. Rektorer anser sig generellt sett ha goda kunskaper om begreppet, men deras beskrivningar av begreppet är relativt knapphändiga. Inga tydliga samband föreligger mellan rektorernas svar och deras ålder eller år inom yrket. Vidare visar resultatet få skill-nader mellan dem som anser sig ha goda kunskaper inom fältet och dem som an-ser sig ha mindre kunskaper. Den kvalitativa analysen av svaren genererade några olika teman om didaktik och undervisning med viss anknytning till didaktisk teoribildning. Slutsatsen är dock att rektorerna inte beskriver begreppet didaktik ingående eller mångfacetterat, men att det i viss mån sammanlänkas med under-visning, särskilt i skolmiljön. Gällande undervisningsbegreppet gör rektorerna mer explicita uttalanden, men dessa kan tolkas som tydligare länkade till rektors-rollen i grundskolan. Inga spår av didaktik i relation till fritidshemmets omsorgs-perspektiv kan skönjas. Ska rektorer leda verksamheten i fritidshemmet på ett framgångsrikt sätt krävs en samsyn mellan dem och personalen om hur upp-dragen ska förstås och genomföras. Där spelar didaktiken en avgörande roll. Av detta skäl ser vi behovet av intensifierad forskning på fältet som stort.
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- Boström, Lena, 1960-, et al.
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In search of didactics in school-age educare centres : To conceptualize what exists but has not yet been found
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. - Oslo, Norway : Cappelen Damm Akademisk AS * Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing. - 2387-5739. ; 8:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to focus on approaches that could build a didactic framework for School-Age Educare Centres (SAECs). As a theoretical basis and a research field, didactics exists within many disciplines (e.g., education in natural sciences and preschool). This is not the case within the SAEC. While a lot of research has been devoted to subject didactics, there is a lack of research on didactics in SAECs, and the marginal research that exists shows a fragmented picture of what it could consist of. However, researchers in the field agree that didactics in SAECs is something else than subject didactics and differs from general didactics. Our aim in this paper is to suggest and discuss how a didactic framework in SAECs could be conceptualized with an intention in the near future to find the specific didactics that distinguishes the work in SAECs. The proposed design involves theory building/testing with a bottom-up perspective and various data collection methods. Because building a didactic theory for SAECs is the intention, the research process will take informed grounded theory (GT) as its methodological starting point. The empirical material will be related to the two dominant didactic frameworks: the German and the Anglo-Saxon. This framework will also be critically reviewed in relation to the activities in SAECs. The results will contribute important knowledge to the development of a relevant and useful didactic theory for SAECs. The practical implications are directly relevant to every stakeholder affected by the SAECs’ activities: policy actors, staff, students, and researchers. In the long term, we will be able to find a legitimate platform for didactics in SAECs, which will have concrete importance for professionals and researchers in particular.
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- Boström, Lena, 1960-, et al.
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På spaning efter fritidshemmets didaktik
- 2022
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Ingår i: Acta Didactica Norden. - : University of Oslo Library. - 2535-8219. ; 16
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Didaktik som teori och forskningsområde i relation till undervisning är vedertaget inom många discipliner (exempelvis naturvetenskap och förskolepedagogik) men inte för fritidspedagogik. Trots detta ska studenter på grundlärarprogrammet med inriktning fritidshem uppfylla ett av examensmålen som explicit uttrycker kunskaper om didaktik och ämnesdidaktik inom det fritidspedagogiska området. Därtill är forskningen ganska osynlig. Denna studie lyfter fram hur didaktik explicit behandlats i både vetenskapliga artiklar och forskningsbaserad litteratur med inriktning mot fritidshem. Syftet med litteraturöversikten är att a) identifiera och beskriva fokus och inriktning i åren 2000–2021, b) jämföra, diskutera och problematisera resultaten, samt c) peka ut framtida forskningsinriktningar. Metoden är en systematisk litteraturöversikt (SLR) med en kvalitativ och kvantitativ innehållsanalys. Resultaten visar att intresset för och med-vetenheten om didaktikbegreppet har vuxit fram de senaste tio åren och att de allra flesta texterna utgår från en kvalitativ ansats med diskuterande, argumenterande och reflekt-erande analyser. Ett mindre antal studier bygger på empiriska underlag. Innehålls-mässigt fångar studierna några av de traditionella didaktiska begreppen såsom läraren, ledarskap, ämnesdidaktik, men även olika teoretiska utgångspunkter. Användningen av begreppet didaktik i fritidshemmet pekar på att området behöver utvecklas, att didaktik-begreppet används i förhållande till fritidshemmets verksamheter och att det nyttjas som tolkningsram för empiriskt material. Studien påvisar förvisso medvetenheten om olika didaktiska aspekter, men det saknas studier som införlivar den didaktiska komplexi-teten.
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- Bäckström, Ingela, 1963-, et al.
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A health‐related quality management approach to evaluating health promotion activities
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences. - : Emerald. - 1756-669X .- 1756-6703. ; 4:1, s. 76-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe health promotion activities accomplished within a project and to measure the conditions for sustainable health within the case organizations. Also, the purpose is to test a previously developed measurement approach, which measures health-related quality management.Design/methodology/approach – A health promotion project currently being carried out at eight Swedish elementary schools has been studied. In earlier research a measurement approach was developed to measure health-related quality management. The approach was handed out to the co-workers at the eight different schools in the initial stage of the project. The leaders at the schools were informed of the results of their own school and the mean value of all the eight schools. The consistency and reliability of the statements within the approach was tested.Findings – A description of health promotion activities accomplished and planned within the project can be found. The results from the measurement of the health-related quality management in the eight schools are presented, together with the mean score of all schools. The test of the measurement approach is presented and discussed.Originality/value – A description of health promotion activities can help managers and project leaders to plan and carry out valuable health promotion activities in their striving for both sustainable health among the co-workers and efficient organizations. This measurement approach can help managers and project leaders to measure the effects of the health promotion activities
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- Fransson, Göran, 1968-, et al.
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On the Swedish National Grade School for Digital Technologies in Education – GRADE : Expectations and experiences of doctorial students and supervisors
- 2018
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Ingår i: ICERI2018 Proceedings. - Sevilla : IATED. - 9788409059485 ; , s. 769-774
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish National Graduate School for Digital Technologies in Education (GRADE) is a cooperative venture between six Swedish universities established during 2018. Within the field of educational sciences and in the area of digital technologies in education, GRADE aims to strengthen the expertise in the area and to increase national and international cooperation in research training activities.Over a number of years, and from multitude of sources (cf. Brown & Davis, 2004; Fisher, Higgins & Loveless, 2006; Kafai & Resnick 1996), research has stressed that increased digitalization in schools leads to a complexity that needs to be taken into account on different levels, from different perspectives and with different designs, methodologies and theoretical perspectives (cf. Olofsson, Lindberg, Fransson & Hauge, 2015; Price, Jewitt & Brown, 2013; Tondeur, Valcke & van Braak, 2008). At a micro-level, the learning situation of students, teachers and school-leaders changes and it becomes important to deepen the knowledge about the impact digital technologies has on the fundamental conditions for teaching and learning of different school subjects (cf. Chun, Kern & Smith 2016; Leung & Baccaglini-Frank, 2017). On a macro-level, conditions for education as such changes and digital technologies becomes an important object of study as agents of change (Wong & Li, 2008). The digitalization of K-12 schools has long been highlighted in policy as a necessity (cf. Kirkman et al, 2002; OECD, 2010). However, research and evaluations (cf. Fransson et al, 2012; OECD, 2015; Wastiau et al, 2013) show that many substantial challenges remain. One of the fundamental pillars of GRADE is the interdisciplinary approach. Several disciplines are present (Applied IT, Curriculum studies, Education, Informatics, Technology and Learning, Educational work, Work-interated Learning) in researching digital technologies in K-12 schools with the ambition to contribute to the continued implementation, integration and use of digital technologies in Swedish K-12 schools that stems from the evidence-based knowledge produced within the activities of GRADE. The research within GRADE will be characterized by close cooperation with stakeholders from school practice, with the aim to contribute to concrete school development. In GRADE, a multi-level approach that involves multiple layers or levels of school activities will be encouraged. When possible, studies will be longitudinal. This will imply studies from an organizational and management perspective, e.g. studies of school leaders and other members of senior management positions responsible for digital technology use and implementation. Also implied are studies of teachers' teaching practices and didactical considerations, as well as studies of the students in classrooms and their learning using digital technologies. This will also imply that several issues with a bearing on the digitalization of education, for example regarding school policy, teaching, learning, assessment and professional development will be researched from different perspectives and with different methodological approaches. In this paper, these points of departure will be explored based on the expectations and experiences of the first twelve admitted doctoral students and their supervisors.
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- Gustafsson, Kristina, et al.
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Social work in a multilingual world : editorial
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 13:4, s. 501-509
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